Tele-audiology: Expanding Access to Hearing Care and Enhancing Patient Connectivity.
Background: Tele-audiology within the Department of Veterans Affairs has expanded significantly in response to growing Veteran hearing needs and issues, namely maldistribution of provider resources and continued lags in timely access to care. Although tele-audiology originated from successive teleme...
| Published in: | Journal of the American Academy of Audiology Vol. 26; no. 9; pp. 792 - 800 |
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Thieme Medical Publishing Inc.
Oct2015
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